The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has developed a faster version of the wireless personal area networking technology.

The prototype specification, known as Bluetooth EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), was announced on Tuesday at the 2004 Wireless Connectivity Show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is expected to be finalized later this year, and will appear in products sometime in 2005. Although the SIG did not divulge the actual data rate for the specification, Cambridge Silicon Radio said that it has developed a prototype chip based on the technology that will run at 2.1 M bps.

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